A History of Conflict: Entry #3

First Encounters: The Genius of Illmatic

The Black Man’s Burden?

The Black Man’s Burden?
A Review of August Wilson’s Radio Golf

 
 
Just five days after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Bill of 1965 a riot exploded in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles that left 34 dead. When Dr. King found out about the riot he was en route to a vacation in Puerto [...]

A History of Conflict: Entry #2

An Introduction to the Conflict

Du Bois and Black Liberation

Denise sent me this blog today and I wanted to share it with others. While I don’t agree with everything the writer has to say, it is nonetheless really interesting and insightful.  Below is a portion I found most compelling.
DuBois is widely thought of as an uncompromising adversary of white supremacy and its social pillar, [...]

A History of Conflict: Entry #1

                                    

Nightmare Overhanging Darkly: A Book Review

  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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When Dr. Acklyn Lynch published Nightmare Overhanging Darkly sixteen years ago he placed himself in rare company. Few authors would attempt to chronicle the contours of a culture’s tradition of resistance in a single volume; even fewer could plausibly pull such a feat off. In today’s soundbyte-driven marketplace many authors (and publishers) err on [...]

The Ties that Bind Cory Booker and Barack Obama

[Cory] Booker is turning his attention to enforcing quality-of-life crimes—something he’s passionate about. Driving with his police escort recently, the mayor watched as occupants of the car in front of them hurled trash out of their window. Ordering his escort to pull over the car, the mayor rolled down his window and berated the offenders. [...]

Passing Ain’t All That Strange: A Review

 
Can there be love without understanding? Must love be understood in order to be real? What is real, anyway? These are just a few of the weighty questions the unnamed protagonist in Passing Strange, a newly-opened play at New York’s Public Theater, crosses the Atlantic Ocean to answer for himself. His journey from a backward [...]

Americans Support D.C. Vote

From Angus Reid Global Monitor
 A majority of people in the United States would grant voting powers to their capital’s delegate in Congress, according to a poll by TNS released by the Washington Post. 61 per cent of respondents want the Washington, D.C. delegate to be allowed to vote on laws in the House of Representatives.
When [...]

City Screw-ups and Senate Hold-ups

Just two days after the House of Representatives green-lighted legislation that will allow D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty to takeover the school system, Fenty’s administration was forced to apologize for submitting verbatim copies of a North Carolina school district’s strategic plan. It was reported that all of the links within the document went straight to Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., [...]